MARK COLVIN: The company that owns the Fukushima nuclear plant, Tepco, has finally admitted what many have long suspected, that one of their reactors underwent a full meltdown after the tsunami that hit Japan’s east Coast.

They say the fuel rods in the number one reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi plant are exposed.

We begin with our Tokyo correspondent Mark Willacy.

Mark this has, as I say, been long suspected, but what are they saying today?

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